socket

Opens a socket of the specified kind and attaches it to filehandle
SOCKET. DOMAIN, TYPE, and PROTOCOL are specified the same as for
the syscall of the same name. You should useSocket
first
to get the proper definitions imported. See the examples in
Sockets: Client/Server Communication in perlipc.

On systems that support a close-on-exec flag on files, the flag will
be set for the newly opened file descriptor, as determined by the
value of $^F. See $^F in perlvar.

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